Heck yes it rocks. I was there about 3 weeks ago and it was the first time I had a chance to ride it. My ride was, fortunately, normal. However, as I was leaving the park, I noticed it actually get stuck at the top. Aparently, it happens only once or twice a year. Bad day for it too...it was over 100 degrees. The view of Lake Erie would have been great though.
Nanotechnology is the study of how matter behaves when its lattice size is below around 100nm. When matter its subdivided to this point, cool things happen due to the small density of free electrons that can interact. The fine powders you are talking about are fairly common in the study and all have properties that are not seen in bulk materials. They are also relatively easy to create (as compared to active nano devices like transistors and diodes) which is why we are seeing products like surface coatings being developed using this tech.
Interesting that this story came out just a few days after I had an argument with my two roomates who are getting their masters degrees in English while I am finishing a masters in Electrical Engineering. I am torn as well on the subject for the two reasons stated in parent: First, it seems to be a rights violation of sorts and 2, the simple fact that you have to sign over your work to participate is simply wrong.
I suppose one can argue that if someone is cheating, they deserve to get caught. Thats fine, but the number of students that are guilty of cheating until proven innocent by turnitin.com who really aren't cheating are being marginalized by having to be suspect at all times for a crime they are not committing.
Even worse, all these companies make money from student's work without the students being compensated in any way. Without the sourced works being added to the systems, the systems would fail to catch plagiarism and so would the purpose of the company.
Of course, there are advantages for a university using these systems. Keeping themselves out of legal trouble is certainly one as well as keeping their students to a high standard is another. It just pains me that universities can no longer (or are not willing to) develop students' moral and ethical standards along with their academic ones and turn instead to an outside source for policing the student body.
This issue has been on my mind for a while...does anyone else have some thoughts?
Actually, when the concord used to do airshows (like the world's largest in Oscosh, Wisconsin) it would go into Canada, fly above mach 1, slow down, then come back for tourist flights.
The rovers can either use their Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) to grind a short way into rocks or (leave it to nasa to think up very simple solutions) dig a small hole using one of its wheels if the top layer is too deep to penetrate with the RAT. They are considering doing this at the Opportunity site.
I read somewhere they only tested the rover in continuous operation for 9 days. All other tests were discrete. Even though I am EXTREMELY impressed with the talent these guys are showing daily, I find it hard to believe they didn't run the thing for a long time to just see what happens. If someone out there knows of a longer test, could you please site it?
Success does not always indicate the best product...merly that the proprietors of said product are the best at marketing it....which is exactly what Intel has done with x86. For a good look at the differences between the two, I would suggest a look at Computer Architecture, a Quantative Approach by Hennessy and Patterson. It gives strengths and weaknesses of both sides of the arguments.
One closing note, the vast majority of processors being produced today are not for the Desktop market (that being a relatively low percentage on the order of 10% or so). The majority are embedded procs that are based on RISC architectures such as ARM's (Intel, TI, Motorola, Microchip, Atmel, et all think RISC is worth looking at at low space, high reliability, low energy applications).
I just noticed this....actually thats not true. We get hit all the time with noids', just that our atmosphere burns them off before they have a chance to effect us. Yes, the larger craters on the moon are mostly from millenia ago, but it still gets hit (as do we) with smaller objects that it can't deflect or burn off as we can. They would require as much if not more protection that all of our current space tech has due to their longer durations in the harsh environment.
The loss of the contrast between Boromir and Faramir is a huge failing that actually hurts the plot more than any other change PJ made to the movie. We were supposed to see the strong and wise younger son and instead we got another bumbling idiot. Why did PJ kill of Boromir in the first place...its not like he's really following the plot anymore. He could have saved money on actors.
Those are excellent ideas but has anyone as of yet considered where those nifty craters came from? Thats right, asteroids. Since the moon isn't blessed with the atmosphere we have any luner development would be in constant threat of being pummeled.
Yes, it does matter. The applications that he tested did not include cpu usage, which are assumed to be neglegable. Try doing an IDE Raid setup while your cpu usage is already high (e.g., a cpu and disk intensive game or running many applications in virtual memory). The simple fact that the scsi controller handles the io operations will cause your performance to increase even more than the article suggests. Now, do you need to spend 500+ dollars to store mp3s and your pron? Probably not.
I would love to take credit for it, but (I hear the flames coming now) it is actually a French saying that I heard years ago while on a class trip in Paris. It goes something like "La vie est un comedie a ceux qui pensent et a une tragedie a ceux qui se sentent." It cought my attention and I have been using it ever since. Thanks for asking.
I think the point the auther was trying to make was not that robbinhooding is legal. Rather, he is simply stating that the demand and quality of music of today does not match the prices it is being sold at, largely due to the fat of the record industry. He is saying (and I agree) that the music industry would solve so many problems by selling their music for a realistic price of between $5 and $8, instead of the current inflated price of between $15 and $18 (US Dollars). This would allow consumers of a much larger econimic status to start buying their products, which we would all rather own the original of anyhow. Gaining back the confidence and support of the consumer is the only way the RIAA is going to solve their current IP dilemma and lowering their prices is the only current way for them to do that.
I completely agree with your sentiment that this concept is utterly absurd and I am sorry to read about your work woes. Yet, I do believe it is not a matter of a lack of hirable engineers and scientists (depending on what your definition of hirable is), rather a lack of funds to hire said engineers and scientists. I'm sure there are even many slashdotters with the right experience and education out there who would jump at the chance to be part of such a grand program.
We did the same thing two years ago when some other MS virus dropped our network to its knees (which, in reality, wasn't that far down anyhow). It wasn't too bad...my roomates and I cleared nearly an entire building in about 3 days. The students were actually very receptive to us to and our help. A highlight was, of course, running into more interesting video titles in their dvd drives, such as "Shut up and bl0w me, vol 4". The whole campus cleanup took about 2 weeks.
Interesting. Yet, there must be some better software than that out there, as that was terrible. You could tell exactly where the software had to stretch to bring that dead cat back to life, and I did listen to the after version first. Sorry, but look at the musicians who have had real staying power in music. They use errects the way they were intended, that is, to enhance their creative potential (see lots of techno, modern rock that is extreamly well produced AND well performed) or make music sound like it is being played live (music that is recorded lacks the live sound qualities of the venue, which require things like delay, reverb, and aural exciting to be added). Yet, there is a standard recording engineers all know...junk in, junk out. These effects can be used as a bandaid for that problem as well, but they will NEVER be as good as the class acts out there that can do it dry.
I suppose his argument could be supported more by comparing computers systems and their interactions to an evolving system. A simple, primitive, and growing system faces challenges which, for the most part, allow it to evolve. Its base medium, biological or electronical is irrelevant, although much of thier bases is similar anyhow. In biological systems, viruses develop as a counterpart to some other biological medium (namely cell material) that they can interact with for good or bad...which is also irrelevant. Computer viruses also are developed as a counterpart to some other "good" system. The only major difference between the two is their method of creation: biological viruses were originally spawned from simple chemical reactions as were their intended targets...depending on your belief system of course. (see foot note). Computer viruses were spawned by (usually) malicious h@x0rs (humans...we hope) as were their counterparts.
Note: My use of Darwinism and natural science as an explanation of human existance is a personal belief but is not meant to insult or demean anyone who believes in other more supernatural intervention who would otherwise not put human and virus creation in the same catagory.
I had the same issue when installing a linux box as a router. It went something like this:
Tech: Ok now that you have your settings ready, Please reboot windows. Me: Alright. (pause for 45 seconds) Me: Ok, its all set. Tech: Thanks for using our crappy service. Bye.
Its amazing how much time they could save by just trusting users from time to time.
In other news...SCO's stock is down a little under 10%...about a dollar;-). IBM's stock is up. How many lawsuits does it take to make a small IP broker collapse? We'll soon find out.
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Nope, that doesn't work either.
Heck yes it rocks. I was there about 3 weeks ago and it was the first time I had a chance to ride it. My ride was, fortunately, normal. However, as I was leaving the park, I noticed it actually get stuck at the top. Aparently, it happens only once or twice a year. Bad day for it too...it was over 100 degrees. The view of Lake Erie would have been great though.
Nanotechnology is the study of how matter behaves when its lattice size is below around 100nm. When matter its subdivided to this point, cool things happen due to the small density of free electrons that can interact. The fine powders you are talking about are fairly common in the study and all have properties that are not seen in bulk materials. They are also relatively easy to create (as compared to active nano devices like transistors and diodes) which is why we are seeing products like surface coatings being developed using this tech.
I suppose one can argue that if someone is cheating, they deserve to get caught. Thats fine, but the number of students that are guilty of cheating until proven innocent by turnitin.com who really aren't cheating are being marginalized by having to be suspect at all times for a crime they are not committing.
Even worse, all these companies make money from student's work without the students being compensated in any way. Without the sourced works being added to the systems, the systems would fail to catch plagiarism and so would the purpose of the company.
Of course, there are advantages for a university using these systems. Keeping themselves out of legal trouble is certainly one as well as keeping their students to a high standard is another. It just pains me that universities can no longer (or are not willing to) develop students' moral and ethical standards along with their academic ones and turn instead to an outside source for policing the student body.
This issue has been on my mind for a while...does anyone else have some thoughts?
I think you're referring to alerons and rudder...flaps increase the lifting surface (for some types of flaps) and slow the aircraft down.
Bummer for him, seeing as MS stock is where it was in late 98'. Time , 5-10-04
Actually, when the concord used to do airshows (like the world's largest in Oscosh, Wisconsin) it would go into Canada, fly above mach 1, slow down, then come back for tourist flights.
The rovers can either use their Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) to grind a short way into rocks or (leave it to nasa to think up very simple solutions) dig a small hole using one of its wheels if the top layer is too deep to penetrate with the RAT. They are considering doing this at the Opportunity site.
I read somewhere they only tested the rover in continuous operation for 9 days. All other tests were discrete. Even though I am EXTREMELY impressed with the talent these guys are showing daily, I find it hard to believe they didn't run the thing for a long time to just see what happens. If someone out there knows of a longer test, could you please site it?
Success does not always indicate the best product...merly that the proprietors of said product are the best at marketing it....which is exactly what Intel has done with x86. For a good look at the differences between the two, I would suggest a look at Computer Architecture, a Quantative Approach by Hennessy and Patterson. It gives strengths and weaknesses of both sides of the arguments.
One closing note, the vast majority of processors being produced today are not for the Desktop market (that being a relatively low percentage on the order of 10% or so). The majority are embedded procs that are based on RISC architectures such as ARM's (Intel, TI, Motorola, Microchip, Atmel, et all think RISC is worth looking at at low space, high reliability, low energy applications).
A truly fantastic achievement. NASA just got a seriously needed boost from this amazing work. Again, congrats to you and your team.
I just noticed this....actually thats not true. We get hit all the time with noids', just that our atmosphere burns them off before they have a chance to effect us. Yes, the larger craters on the moon are mostly from millenia ago, but it still gets hit (as do we) with smaller objects that it can't deflect or burn off as we can. They would require as much if not more protection that all of our current space tech has due to their longer durations in the harsh environment.
The loss of the contrast between Boromir and Faramir is a huge failing that actually hurts the plot more than any other change PJ made to the movie. We were supposed to see the strong and wise younger son and instead we got another bumbling idiot. Why did PJ kill of Boromir in the first place...its not like he's really following the plot anymore. He could have saved money on actors.
Those are excellent ideas but has anyone as of yet considered where those nifty craters came from? Thats right, asteroids. Since the moon isn't blessed with the atmosphere we have any luner development would be in constant threat of being pummeled.
Yes, it does matter. The applications that he tested did not include cpu usage, which are assumed to be neglegable. Try doing an IDE Raid setup while your cpu usage is already high (e.g., a cpu and disk intensive game or running many applications in virtual memory). The simple fact that the scsi controller handles the io operations will cause your performance to increase even more than the article suggests. Now, do you need to spend 500+ dollars to store mp3s and your pron? Probably not.
I would love to take credit for it, but (I hear the flames coming now) it is actually a French saying that I heard years ago while on a class trip in Paris. It goes something like "La vie est un comedie a ceux qui pensent et a une tragedie a ceux qui se sentent." It cought my attention and I have been using it ever since. Thanks for asking.
I think the point the auther was trying to make was not that robbinhooding is legal. Rather, he is simply stating that the demand and quality of music of today does not match the prices it is being sold at, largely due to the fat of the record industry. He is saying (and I agree) that the music industry would solve so many problems by selling their music for a realistic price of between $5 and $8, instead of the current inflated price of between $15 and $18 (US Dollars). This would allow consumers of a much larger econimic status to start buying their products, which we would all rather own the original of anyhow. Gaining back the confidence and support of the consumer is the only way the RIAA is going to solve their current IP dilemma and lowering their prices is the only current way for them to do that.
I completely agree with your sentiment that this concept is utterly absurd and I am sorry to read about your work woes. Yet, I do believe it is not a matter of a lack of hirable engineers and scientists (depending on what your definition of hirable is), rather a lack of funds to hire said engineers and scientists. I'm sure there are even many slashdotters with the right experience and education out there who would jump at the chance to be part of such a grand program.
I suppose its easy to miss that one though...
We did the same thing two years ago when some other MS virus dropped our network to its knees (which, in reality, wasn't that far down anyhow). It wasn't too bad...my roomates and I cleared nearly an entire building in about 3 days. The students were actually very receptive to us to and our help. A highlight was, of course, running into more interesting video titles in their dvd drives, such as "Shut up and bl0w me, vol 4". The whole campus cleanup took about 2 weeks.
Interesting. Yet, there must be some better software than that out there, as that was terrible. You could tell exactly where the software had to stretch to bring that dead cat back to life, and I did listen to the after version first. Sorry, but look at the musicians who have had real staying power in music. They use errects the way they were intended, that is, to enhance their creative potential (see lots of techno, modern rock that is extreamly well produced AND well performed) or make music sound like it is being played live (music that is recorded lacks the live sound qualities of the venue, which require things like delay, reverb, and aural exciting to be added). Yet, there is a standard recording engineers all know...junk in, junk out. These effects can be used as a bandaid for that problem as well, but they will NEVER be as good as the class acts out there that can do it dry.
I suppose his argument could be supported more by comparing computers systems and their interactions to an evolving system. A simple, primitive, and growing system faces challenges which, for the most part, allow it to evolve. Its base medium, biological or electronical is irrelevant, although much of thier bases is similar anyhow. In biological systems, viruses develop as a counterpart to some other biological medium (namely cell material) that they can interact with for good or bad...which is also irrelevant. Computer viruses also are developed as a counterpart to some other "good" system. The only major difference between the two is their method of creation: biological viruses were originally spawned from simple chemical reactions as were their intended targets...depending on your belief system of course. (see foot note). Computer viruses were spawned by (usually) malicious h@x0rs (humans...we hope) as were their counterparts.
Note: My use of Darwinism and natural science as an explanation of human existance is a personal belief but is not meant to insult or demean anyone who believes in other more supernatural intervention who would otherwise not put human and virus creation in the same catagory.
I had the same issue when installing a linux box as a router. It went something like this:
Tech: Ok now that you have your settings ready, Please reboot windows.
Me: Alright. (pause for 45 seconds)
Me: Ok, its all set.
Tech: Thanks for using our crappy service. Bye.
Its amazing how much time they could save by just trusting users from time to time.
In other news...SCO's stock is down a little under 10%...about a dollar ;-). IBM's stock is up. How many lawsuits does it take to make a small IP broker collapse? We'll soon find out.
The line is: "Because Good is dumb" ;-)
Spaceballs, the movie.